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The Best Seafood Dives

Long live the laid-back shacks where the menus hang on the wall, the beers chill on ice, and the food comes piled high, deep-fried, slathered, breaded, buttered, and steamed.

2009 Best Seafood Dives

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Phillippi Creek Village Restaurant & Oyster Bar, Sarasota

What to order: the Creek Combo Pots―steam-table trays of steamed seafood―with wine or one of 12 draft beer options.

The view: Placid Phillippi Creek, home to boaters, lots of birds, and the occasional alligator.

What you’ll shell out: $12–$28 for entrées.

Check it out: 5353 South Tamiami Trail; 941/925-4444 or creekseafood.com